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Not surprising at all.
We even had extensive military training in Taiwan.
Most importantly, must have "One China" included.
Text from our congratulatory message.
"Singapore shares a close and longstanding friendship with Taiwan and the Taiwanese people, and will continue to grow this relationship based on our 'One China' policy."
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That was not a fact in that piece of history. I guess we were watching different movies...
People around my age know how scared Americans were in 70s and 80s of USSR. Not always, not paranoid, but scared. That was the only instance in which the American public was scared of any other country on this planet. It was internal corruption and bad governance that brought down USSR form within. If it were for the Chinese, as long as the USSR was maintained, which was totally technically feasible, given the resources and the population and the eduction, USSR would always have been a super power, regardless of how US/NATO/EU have evolved. By the same token, China will always be a super power as long as China maintains its unity and independence. As I said a few times in this forum, there are only 3 real independent countries on this planet: China, Russia and US. None can destroy other(s). Collapse would only occur from within. Having been living in US for more than 30 years now, I can assure you that it was not US or any other country that brought down USSR per se. It was Russians themselves. On that note, I actually don't have much sympathy for the Russians on almost any subject. I am just trying to state the facts as far as US-China war is concerned.
Of course, they were scared of the USSR in the movies in the media because it was a positive influence on their people to work harder, and have more national unity for example.
But elites probably weren't all that scared if you look at some objective metrics. After all, their economic model was flawed in the start.
The entire country and economy basically focused only on military matters, ignoring everything else. They were not life-threatening.
Also, at that time USSR was way more divided from the inside than even the US, and we know the federal and ethnic/racial profile there.
The USSR basically never stood a chance. They were a superpower, but they couldn't even threaten the US alone, not to mention the US and the entire West it controls combined.
And today China can threaten not only the US (it's already above them) but the entire Collective West combined.
If I were the US, I would also try to start a war with China and try to neutralize them as soon as possible, as they are life-threatening.
But, I would not be so stupid and hubris-filled to realize that fact and act upon it only in 2025-2030, when they are already stronger than me, but many decades earlier for example.
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Trump just won the Iowa caucuses. He won the most votes in 99 counties, and lost 1 county by a single vote. It’s still very much his party (GOP).
You guys really underestimate the Soviet economy. They had more population than the US back then. And in a lot of hard stats like steel production, coal production, and electricity production they weren't behind either. Militarily of course they were the only other country with the capacity to wipe out the US and all its allies from the face of the Earth with their nuclear arsenal. So of course they couldn't be underestimated. Even today Russia is competitive with the US in a lot of hard stats.
Had the Sino-Soviet split not happened history could have been quite different.
Had the Sino-Soviet split not happened history could have been quite different.
The truth is basically this, even if the USSR was of the same level of threat back then as China is today, it was still a way different situation.
The US during the Cold War had way better social cohesion, financial health, economic model, etc.
So even if another superpower managed to penetrate their global military standing and their dollar financial hegemony,
They would still survive. They were much healthier socially, they had way less debt and better financial metrics,
Their economy actually was leading in producing many different things. And they could survive that hit.
But today, take their dollar internalization and money printing away, and they would collapse in a civil war 99%.
So, even if the USSR at that time = China today. It still doesn't mean that they won't opt in for a hot war with China, unlike with the USSR.
The US during the Cold War had way better social cohesion, financial health, economic model, etc.
So even if another superpower managed to penetrate their global military standing and their dollar financial hegemony,
They would still survive. They were much healthier socially, they had way less debt and better financial metrics,
Their economy actually was leading in producing many different things. And they could survive that hit.
But today, take their dollar internalization and money printing away, and they would collapse in a civil war 99%.
So, even if the USSR at that time = China today. It still doesn't mean that they won't opt in for a hot war with China, unlike with the USSR.
Good thing i voted for that result....
CBC.ca
Canadian universities and researchers will soon be ineligible for federal grants if they're affiliated with foreign institutions the government says pose a threat to national security.
On Tuesday the federal government in China, Russia and Iran as the "highest risk to Canada's national security."
The fed also released — quantum technologies, robotics, aerospace, space and satellite technology and medical and health-care technology.
Canadian universities and researchers will soon be ineligible for federal grants if they're affiliated with foreign institutions the government says pose a threat to national security.
On Tuesday the federal government in China, Russia and Iran as the "highest risk to Canada's national security."
The fed also released — quantum technologies, robotics, aerospace, space and satellite technology and medical and health-care technology.
It seems that far-right Anglo imperialists might be officially declaring war on Russia, China and the rest of humanity in 2024:
"Every day we’re seeing the tragic consequences of the more dangerous world we’re living in. How we respond will define our future. And the choice is clear. Just like our enemies, we must be prepared for a new era of confrontation." - UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps
Will the true free world / the global majority insist on appeasing these Anglo-Saxon n@zis (i.e. supremacists) or will it head the warnings of the past and confront and if necessary strategically defeat these wicked people?
Defeating Anglo-American imperialism will be the challenge of our time. The world will have to unite once more to also teach these "wannabe-rulers-of-earth" a lesson that they will never forget.
"Every day we’re seeing the tragic consequences of the more dangerous world we’re living in. How we respond will define our future. And the choice is clear. Just like our enemies, we must be prepared for a new era of confrontation." - UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps delivers major speech on UK's vision to deter threats
Will the true free world / the global majority insist on appeasing these Anglo-Saxon n@zis (i.e. supremacists) or will it head the warnings of the past and confront and if necessary strategically defeat these wicked people?
Defeating Anglo-American imperialism will be the challenge of our time. The world will have to unite once more to also teach these "wannabe-rulers-of-earth" a lesson that they will never forget.
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